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Morning Cup of Links: Antique Heart

Take a look at The World's First Artificial Heart. It looks mechanical almost to the point of steampunk, yet it did its job back in 1969.
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A story of censorship in our schools. The original post is reprinted at Reddit, where someone said, sure you have the right to be offended, and we have the right to ignore you.
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A Graphic Guide to Facebook Portraits. Funny, the circumstances of my picture are nowhere to be found on the chart. (via Buzzfeed)
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An industrial milling machine plays the MacGyver Theme while it works. Why they selected that particular tune to listen to all day, I have no clue.
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How old is too old to trick-or-treat? At a certain point, you're expected to pay for your own candy.
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The next time someone criticizes you, calls you a failure, or just says "FAIL", tell them that if you've never failed, you've never lived.
*5 Ghosts Haunting The Sports World. Which is pretty easy to do, as sports fans are often hyper-superstitious.

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Also on Mental Floss:

DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes.
He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)